Lord Henry Somerset

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Lord Henry Richard Charles Somerset PC (7 December 1849 – 10 October 1932) was a British politician and the third son of the 8th Duke of Beaufort.

Somerset was MP for Monmouthshire from 1871–80 and later Comptroller of the Household from 1874–79. On 6 February 1872, he had married Lady Isabella Caroline Somers-Cocks (d. 1921), the eldest daughter and coheir of the 3rd Earl Somers, and they had an only son, Henry Charles Somers Augustus (1874–1945).

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Morgan and Poulett Somerset	Member for Monmouthshire with Charles Morgan 1841-74, Frederic Morgan 1874-85 1871–1880	Succeeded by Frederic Morgan and John Rolls
Political offices
Preceded by Lord Otho FitzGerald	Comptroller of the Household 1874–1879	Succeeded by Earl of Yarmouth